Long term planning of selling your home?

[paulsharvey]

We are still working on our old house to get it listed. We are painting all of the interior walls, painting the cabinets, repairing the laminate wood floor (only replacing the damaged planks), and redoing the master bath that had cracked tile. Not trying to upgrade, just make it look clean and move in ready. A large part of the painting is because of the kids...
We do plan to put the absolute cheapest vinyl blinds in, like $11/set from Walmart. I did patch some drywall. We considered replacement cabinet doors/drawer faces, but it was about $900-1200, and the lead time was pretty high (like 60 days).

Our potential buyers will likely be 1 of 2 groups. First time buyer, moving from rental to ownership, and hopefully judging the home based on their current rental. Second buyer would be an investor seeking to rent it out.

 

[Sigarms]

We are still working on our old house to get it listed. We are painting all of the interior walls, painting the cabinets, repairing the laminate wood floor (only replacing the damaged planks), and redoing the master bath that had cracked tile. Not trying to upgrade, just make it look clean and move in ready. A large part of the painting is because of the kids...

Have to laugh. The one house we looked at a month or two ago (first house we looked at since we bought our current home over 20 years ago) was being listed at 420K. 1,900 sq ft with 7 acres, but most of the land really wasn't useable for anything.

Chipped paint on the walls, chipped countertops, and a spare bedroom over the garage that had horrendous carpeting that was stained all over the place as well as having an odd smell.

Apparently the people were still living there, and my wife noted with all the beds they had a LOT of kids, but still...You would think they would be doing exactly what your doing in getting their house ready to sell.

Having been "foster parents" for our local human society will the countless dogs we've had in our home along with our own boys and dad downstairs, our house will definitely need a coat of paint everywhere along with some other things that need to be addressed.

Perhaps it's just me, but when I saw the shape of the inside of this house we looked at, it just seemed like the people didn't care (I'm just talking about not having chips in the paint all over the inside of the house, chips in the countertops along with kind of a rank carpet). I was actually surprised a realtor let it go that way for a showing.

Just looked, house is still on the market, now at 390k. Ironically enough apparent someone was buying it and it fell through of no fault of the seller.

 

[wilso]

We’ve been considering selling our home and have been reading up on different services. I came across 72SOLD reviews and I should say they are mixed. Some people rave about the quick sales, while others mention hidden fees. I’d love to hear more experiences before making any decisions.

 

[paulsharvey]

We’ve been considering selling our home and have been reading up on different services. Some people rave about the quick sales, while others mention hidden fees.

I think what market your in is a big factor on stuff like "staging". I know in some areas, sellers will rent an entire furniture and TV package, and transfer the rental to the new owner. others, an empty blank slate is better

 

[Sigarms]

You know your old when you're familiar with a spam post

 

[Sigarms]

We’ve been considering selling our home and have been reading up on different services. I came across 72SOLD reviews and I should say they are mixed. Some people rave about the quick sales, while others mention hidden fees. I’d love to hear more experiences before making any decisions.

Right now, we own two homes, moving into one and then selling this home.

After it all plays out, I'll let you know how it plays out LOL

Currently it hasn't been fun is all I can say.

 

[paulsharvey]

Right now, we own two homes, moving into one and then selling this home.

After it all plays out, I'll let you know how it plays out LOL

Currently it hasn't been fun is all I can say.

We did the same. One down side, we got maybe a bit lack in getting things done in the old house, and getting it on the market. I think we moved in Sept 2024, and had the old house on the market in April 2025? Thats probably $3,600 we lost in holding costs. At the same time, we avoided doing much at the new house cause we were kinda in a holding pattern till the old one was ready, listed, and sold.

 

[Sigarms]

We did the same. One down side, we got maybe a bit lack in getting things done in the old house, and getting it on the market. I think we moved in Sept 2024, and had the old house on the market in April 2025? Thats probably $3,600 we lost in holding costs. At the same time, we avoided doing much at the new house cause we were kinda in a holding pattern till the old one was ready, listed, and sold.

Our issue isn't really the old house now, but the new house we're renovating. Figure we should be moved in by the end of February.

Complete new wiring and electrical along with new plumbing and HVAC, along with some major gutting. That's not including the earth work we're having being done for the basement access. New gas line was hooked up Monday by the gas company.

On a plus note, the trailer on the property is finally gone (depending on the year of the trailer at least in NC, removing a trailer is interesting). Believe me, due to the interior, it was not worth keeping LOL

I revived my zombie thread from last year due to that spammer without even realizing it. Needless to say, my wife had a change of plans in my "long term" goal to move

I get the fact that when selling a house you need not to go hog wild over redoing it, the issue with us is the price point. Some things need to be done to our current home due to the price point in the market.

 

[Torvy]

Our realtor was adamant that we repaint the whole interior in beige-ish tones and all of that type of stuff. We passed on that. Just painted areas that really needed it.

We focused more on cleaning, tidying, de-cluttering(storing things at new place), etc.

It sold later than it may have, but eventually, the right family bought the place for very close to asking price.

The hassle was my daughter and I having to bounce every time there was a showing.

I like the idea of a 3rd party buying the place and 'flipping' it by doing all of the painting and preparations once you're out...except they all want too big of a cut to make it worth doing.

 

[Sigarms]

Our realtor was adamant that we repaint the whole interior in beige-ish tones and all of that type of stuff. We passed on that. Just painted areas that really needed it.

We focused more on cleaning, tidying, de-cluttering(storing things at new place), etc.

It sold later than it may have, but eventually, the right family bought the place for very close to asking price.

The hassle was my daughter and I having to bounce every time there was a showing.

I like the idea of a 3rd party buying the place and 'flipping' it by doing all of the painting and preparations once you're out...except they all want too big of a cut to make it worth doing.

1 - Painting interior walls a more neutral color

2 - Replacing carpet in basement with LVP flooring

3 - Update kitchen with a finished ceiling (currently it's a drop ceiling very odd) and updated appliances along with some fresh counter tops (not expensive, but our current kitchen we're definitely used to LOL).

We had the house appraised, and the topic was per the price point what should be done, and we really can't argue with those changes.

What's going to be interesting is how we sell the whole property. Currently the home sits on 6 acres, but there is an additional 32 acres that is really your backyard. Current suggestion which makes sense is sell separately, but offer it as a package deal with a total 38 acres.

My neighbor asked about buying some land as it borders his property, and the realtor that found us my wife's home (lol) told me basically I was giving it away at 5K an acre. She also brought up another point that in our county, land can only be subdivided X amount of times. From my experience out back, it you'd have to build at top of the hill, and I wouldn't look at the land for building anything, but it's great for hunting.

Below to give you a better idea of the layout. Everything in within the red is the additional land. Funny, you can see where I mow for shooting LOL

I honestly don't know if this is a selling point, but when we do get snow, we really have the best sledding hill in around town which is right behind the house LOL